Complex systems of letter and number substitution yield names for God that have been used for magical and supernatural ends.

From Texas to Kathmandu, you can find gefilte fish, pastrami and hummus.

Known as the Aleph Bet, the Hebrew alphabet contains 22 letters.

What gift to get for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah? The challenge with gifts for a life cycle event is ...

Reyna Simnegar is the author of the recently published Persian Food from the Non-persian Bride: And Other Sephardic Kosher Recipes You ...

Earlier this week, the AVI CHAI Foundation together with the Steinhardt Foundation posed a question to the Jewish community: What ...

Although it may derive from Islamic or pagan culture, the hamsa today has become a Jewish and Israeli symbol.

When I started looking through the extensive and awe-inspiring Visiting Scribe archives, one theme kept popping out at me: the perennial ...

This is a guest post by Andrew Tertes, the author of Jacob’s Return. He is blogging here today for Jewish ...

Bringing us all out of Egypt.